Sometimes God decides to give you a bit of luck and yesterday was that day for me. I headed out to Old Hickory in the rain for the TKA event and after about 45 minutes caught the biggest bass I've ever caught in a tournament. A very fat 20.75" on a crankbait.
She actually almost jumped off the hawg trough twice while trying to get a picture of her. If she had succeeded, I would most likely have just packed up and went back to sleep because you can't mentally recover from something like that.
I proceeded to lose two nice fish, then finally landed two more. A 16.75" and a 13.5", both also on a crankbait, and that was good enough to give me 51 total inches and take first place
I was also awarded the prize money for Big Fish so I went home so excited thinking I had won it all but then Geoff contacted me and told me he made a mistake and that someone caught a 21.25" fish, his only fish of the day. He felt so bad about the mistake that he contacted the angler, met him, and paid him out of pocket to make things right. Of course, I wouldn't think for a second to keep what wasn't mine so I'll be sending Geoff a check and all is good now. Jeremy caught some quality fish as well and took 3rd place. Glad to see you get to the podium, man. You usually have other responsibilities with the KBFTN events and don't get the chance to fish for much time during them. We all do appreciate your work!
That big fish mistake was a bit of a buzzkill haha but I still got first place and am very happy to finally win one of these. Pics are attached and I can't wait to get out with this great group again and do what we love.
TKA Tournament on Old Hickory
